Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-06-07
SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON.
JErrsRsos COUNTY. W. Va
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE Z. 1857.
Various Items.

Prohibition has been abandoned in
Kanawha county.
A renion of Lutherans will be held
at Penmar in August.
The B. and o. Relief Association
paid out $50, $50 last March.
The Gate City Guards, of Atlanta,
Ca, have given up their proposed
trip to Europe.
Valentine, the Virginia sculptor,
has completed statue of John c.
Breckenridge in clay.
Hon. J. Randolph Tucker is to de-
liver an address at Yale College on
the Federal convention of 1889.
There's big difference between a
travelling salesman and n drummer.
The drummer sells carloads of goods
and gets his salary raised, while the
travelling salesman doesn't earn his
salt and gets discharged.
Excessive rope-jumping has ale
ready begun to send the little ones
prematurely to their graves. The
death of a girl in Pittsburg last week
was ascribed to it, and also is the
precarious condition of another child
in the same city.
One of the most valuable contribu-
tions to science now in course of
preparation is series of charts show
ing the surface temperature of the
Atlantic coast waters from the eastern
coast of Maine to the extreme south
crly coast of Florida.
Says the Philadelphia Record: {:
There were ten farmers-God bless
EN- lon the jury that convicted the
Standard Oil Company conspirators.
The farmers are the moral as well as
the material foundation upon which
prosperous States may be builded. :"
Too precious are babies to be per-
mittcd to suffer with collie, or other
stomach or bowel disorders when DIR.
Bulls Baby Syrup will cure them.
Those who have trade dollars and
have not yet had them redeemed,
should attend to the matter of re-
demptiQn speedily. After July 1,
1887, they will not be houored by
the Government, and all out after
that time will be worth only their
weight as bullion.
To avoid dyspepsia keep the bowels
regular by the use of DIR. Bulls Bal
timore Pills. tz
Recently mention was made in the
Globe of roll of paper thirteen miles
in length manufactured by the paper
mill at Chambersburg, Pa. We have
since then been informed that a roll
twcnty-one miles in length was made
at Antietam Mills, near this city
This beats the Chambersburg mill by
eight miles. The Chambersburg or
any other mills will have to I" get up
early in the morning" to beat Antie-
tam.-Uagerstoecn Globe.
Days Horse Powder given to cows
will increase the flow of milk from 10
to 20 per cent.
Postage stamps were first issued by
the United States Government in
tions-5 and 10 cents. The former
were printed with brown ink and
bore the bust of Benjamin Franklin ;
the latter were printed in black, and
bore the head of Washington. Two
years previous to that the government
had issued some for New York city
alone, merely to test the working of
them. These stamps bore upon their
face the words " New York" Find
ing they would work we'll, thcgovern-
mcnt in 1917 placed them in general
use throughout the country.
Make one trial of Drexel's Bell
Cologne.
The Parlzersburg Sentinel: says
We have reliable information that
Hon. W. l.. Evarts recently adj
dressed letter to John A. Hutchin-
son, of this city, urging the republi-
cans of this State to cooperate with
the prohibitionists in the coming
election, and promising plenty of as
sistancc, tangible and intangible,
and assuring victory for the alliance.
The prohibitionists are greatly
pleased and encouraged at the news,
and several of the party leaders of
both sides will soon hold conference
and determine upon course OF
action and arrange the preliminary
work for cooperation in 1888"
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